MARTIN WICKS argues that the government’s reduced discounts for council house purchases don’t go far enough, and we need to be calling for the complete abolition of this regressive Thatcherite policy ...

FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ gets the measure of what the new administration in Washington could have in store for Latin America, ...

“WE are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster.” This is the terrifying opening sentence of the 2024 State Of The ...

KEIR STARMER’S record on migration is already worse than the last government. The number of tragedies in the Channel in 2024 will dwarf last year and the previous two years put together. So far this ...

CLIMATE activists issued a fresh call for civil resistance today after the chief of Cop29 was secretly filmed appearing to facilitate fossil fuel deals at the summit. NGO Global Witness posed as a ...

HACKNEY North and Stoke Newington Labour MP Diane Abbott, community activists, parents and academics have backed a six-day ...

Despite the first minister’s protestations that there would be no more cash, the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities ...

The new guidance bans the use of restraints such as holding a child on the ground or applying pressure on the torso or joints ...

STRIKING refuse workers demonstrated outside council offices in Sheffield in South Yorkshire today to demand recognition of their union, Unite. The workers are employed by multina ...

Ahead of a series of public events to encourage debate and discussion of the proposals, NatureScot’s Pete Rawcliffe said: “A new National Park in Galloway is still a proposal and not a done deal, and ...

BOLT drivers will get an estimated more than £15,000 each after winning a landmark workers’ rights case today believed to go ...

CLOSE to 70 per cent of those killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza over a six-month period were women and children, the United Nations said today. In a new report, the UN Human Rights Office says the ...